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Issue: Winter 2018 (Jun-Aug)
Book Club (2018) movie review
Life Just Keeps Getting Better (If You Let It)
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The Next Chapter is Always the Best.
A group of successful women 'of a certain age' (whatever that is), take turns in selecting a book to read and discuss. Outrageous self-make millionaire hotelier (Jane Fonda) distributes FIFTY SHADES OF GREY the best-seller that promotes S&M practices. The metaphor encourages each woman to step out of her comfort zone and demand more of her life.
Sharon (Bergen): If women our age were meant to have sex God wouldn't do what he does to our bodies.
Vivian (Fonda): Speak for yourself.
Sharon: Well, that was not God, that was Dr. Nazaria
Hooray for films that don't pretend that love stops a thirty, or forty. A Hollywood producer famously refused to consider romantic scripts from people over 35 because she thought they wouldn't remember what it was like.
Book Club movie still, Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Candice Bergen, Mary Steenbergen; Festivale film review
Once a grande dame of film was Jessica Tandy in the back of a fancy car and this year's Lady Bracknell. These days we have Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Mary Steenbergen and Candice Bergen, still talking and living life and love and sex and running their businesses (Mom, Hotelier, Chef and Federal Judge), and holding fast to honest female friendships.
"Love is ... just a word until someone gives it meaning."
What this film tells us is that 'over the hill' is more life.
What a great flick. It's a cleverly crafted intertwining of stories and lives and mixes laughter with pathos and ends, as it must, with the triumph of the human spirit -- and friendship.
Grab your double entendre glossaries and buckle up, it's gonna be a wet and wild ride.
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Ali Kayn is a freelance photojournalist and the founding editor of Festivale Online Magazine. Festivale was founded in October, 1996 to provide mentorship to developing writers, an outlet for talented fans, and a test bed for software and hardware under review. She lives in Melbourne, Victoria with a garden full of birds.
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Due for Australian release 09 Aug, 2018 (2018-08-09) |
Just the facts:Title: Book Club (2018) The Players: Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, Mary Steenbergen, Andy Garcia, Don Johnson, Craig T. Nelson, Ed Begley Jr, Richard Dreyfuss, Alicia Silverstone, Wallace Shawn, Ravi Kapoor, Official website: http://www.paramount.com IMDb entry For scheduled release dates, see the coming attractions section. For more information about this movie, check out the internet movie database. |
Published in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 
Filed: 01-Aug-2018